World Cup Long Distance- Vanessa Round 13th
Yesterday in Spain Vanessa Round competed in the Long Distance World Cup event. The distance was 10.9km with 445m climb and the winning time was set at 76 minutes. Vanessa had a very good run finishing 13th in a field of 48 in a time of 101:43. The winner Tove Alexandersson had a time of 87:43, which is 11 minutes outside the expected winning time. Vanessa except for control 2 had a very steady race and to be placed 13th in a long distance World Cup event at this time of the year is a very encouraging performance for Vanessa. The first leg on the course was over 2km long and provided the runners with some interesting route choices.
An excellent analysis of these can be found on the
and the splits are available on
In the mens event Australia did not have any runners and unfortunately the event had to be cancelled as two controls were removed from the forest before the runners had completed their course.
Today Vanessa competes in the middle distance event and live tracking is available on the event website.